e-Megillah, April 25, 2024
e-Megillah
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Issue #665
Letter from Rabbi Ross
Dear TBS Friends and Family,
This Passover will be an opportunity to confront our emotions and anxieties of the past 6 months as we consider liberation, freedom, and joy this spring.
We had a wonderful Family Seder on Sunday for 45 people! Our Friday Community Seder meal is sold out!
Religious School Updates
– We have begun advertising for a new education director for next fall. Please let us know if you know anyone who might be interested! We have formed a search committee for this opening, and will be sharing info and details in the weeks to come.
– Our religious school is on Passover break. Classes resume Thursday 5/2
Judaism 101 – 12 Sunday afternoons (3/3-5/12 at 4:00 pm)
Have you ever wanted to learn more about Judaism from an adult perspective?
Are you considering conversion to Judaism?
If so, this class can form a great foundation to get you started. We will focus on Jewish history, holidays, ideas and traditions.
There will be a few paperback books as part of the class as well.
- Class fees – $10 for TBS members or $56 for the entire course, $18 per class non-members or $154 for the entire course. College students can pay a donation. (Fees for the class will go to pay our zoom manager/teaching assistant.)
- RSVPS are needed in advance. Please email rabbimichaelross to RSVP or get more info and syllabus.
Meeting ID: 874 2204 2658, Passcode: judaism101
Donations to support Israel can be made at
Cleveland Federation:
TBSBrotherhood meetings/events
• Brotherhood Membership
Please contact treasurer Art Busch, ascyb34@yahoo.com with any questions. Your financial support is much appreciated.
The Brotherhood performs much needed projects for TBS. Even if you cannot participate in Brotherhood, PLEASE CONSIDER MAKING A DONATION. This will help to complete the many projects planned for 2024 for TBS.
We meet throughout the year in the spirit of friendship and good humor. We sponsor social events, fundraisers and building beautification projects to support and enhance the TBS community. Contact: Mike Miller at mikemillercsi@roadrunner.com
TBS Sisterhood meetings/events
• It is time to RSVP for our Sunday May 5th docent-led tour at the Cleveland Museum of Art on Sunday May 5th 1:20 pm on “Seeing Nature through the Eyes of the Artist” after which you will be treated to coffee/tea/dessert and a short presentation of Jewish writings about Nature. Please bring your significant other if you would like. Please RSVP to jeanrhodes16th@gmail.com. If you are running late we’ll text each other so you can meet up.
And it is time to send in any photos you would like to share for the service booklet to jeanrhodes16th@gmail.com.
• We are also planning a walk/hike in the CVNP led by Marcy Caplin, Beth Madis and Randy Herman. There will be a longer and shorter walk to meet all abilities. Randy will be our ornithologist on the hike! She will be pointing out birds and other wildlife.
Hike date/rsvp hopefully in next e-megillah.
• I would like to gauge interest in a car pooling to the community-wide All-night Learning Tuesday June 11, 2024 (Erev Shavuot). It is a splendid thing to do. And we need not stay all night! Let me know if you’d consider it at jeanrhodes16th@gmail.com.
Temple Beth Shalom Website Notes
E-MEGILLAH NEWSLETTERS You will need to use the password TBSHudson
You can view upcoming services and events on the Calendar page:
CALENDAR PAGE
Please email James Field at jdfield23@aol.com if you would like to be a TBS Super Supporter. Some ways to volunteer include:• Backup to our Email czar Harry Berman (Harry will show you the ropes)
• Coordinator with the Cleveland Jewish Federation for security support
• Setup/takedown of furniture and refreshments for Prayer Lab, Judaism 101 or other regular Temple activities
• Sponsoring an Oneg
• Coordinating Zoom for services (we do hire a professional for major holiday observances)
• Many other activities to match your interests, abilities and availability
Please send us your announcements, engagements, weddings, graduations, sports news, kid news, etc. to: e-megillah editor, hberman44236@yahoo.com no later than ONE WEEK PRIOR to the next issue. Please include ‘e-megillah news‘ in the subject field.
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A monthly yahrzeit list of TBS family loved ones will now be published in the e-megillah
as well as read during Shabbat services.
Eleanor May Beck • Rosette Borstein • Stanley Caplin • Minna Dubner
Irene Ezring • George Joseph Frankino • Gussie Miller Gardner
Sanford Goeble • Shirley Goldberg • A Jeanne Goldman
Sanford Goldman • Robert Greenberg • Hedva Hess • Gregory Krizman
Anna Krutowsky • Miriam Litt • Jacob T Marks • Julius Miller
Mary Miller • Richard Minor • Michael Rose • Irving Rosen
Stanley Shapiro • Max Wachtell
If you have names to add, please send them with their yahrzeit date to Laurie Frankino, Ritual Chair, at lfrankino@gmail.com.
U P C O M I N G T B S E V E N T S
- Fri. 4/26: 5:30 pm: Community Seder – RSVPs needed
- Sun. 5/5, 1:20 pm: Sisterhood Visit to the Cleveland Museum of Art/refreshments/writings on Nature
- Fri. 5/10, 7:30 pm: Israel Shabbat – in-person only
- Sat. 5/18, 9:30 am: Prayer Lab – in-person only
- Fri. 5/31, 7:30 pm: Pride Shabbat & Judaism 101 Class Dinner – in-person only
- Fri. 6/14, 7:30 pm: Shabbat Service – in-person only
- Fri. 6/14: Annual Board Meeting
- Fri. 6/28, 7:30 pm: Sisterhood Shabbat – “Nature Shabbat”